WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) – The solid of American TV present “The L Phrase: Era Q” visited the White Home Tuesday to mark Lesbian Visibility Week, touting the function the long-running present has performed for homosexual ladies and women throughout the nation.
Karin Jean-Pierre, the primary overtly homosexual White Home press secretary, welcomed the solid, saying it was “extremely essential” for younger folks to see characters in books and on tv whose life tales and identities encourage them “to succeed in their highest potential.”
Reveals like “The L Phrase” that inform LGBTQ tales assist “save valuable lives,” she mentioned, including the present made her really feel much less alone as she grew up.
The fictional Showtime drama that first debuted in 2004 impressed a actuality TV spinoff after which a sequel 15 years later.
“This work is extra essential than ever because the LGBTQI+ neighborhood continues to face relentless assaults from some Republicans throughout the nation,” Jean-Pierre mentioned. “From books bans to ‘do not say homosexual’ legal guidelines, MAGA extremists wish to roll again the visibility and progress we fought so exhausting to realize.”
Conservative lawmakers have led a wave of nationwide actions in current months that embody banning dialogue of gender identification and sexual orientation in faculties and clamping down on drag exhibits, restrictions that they argue are essential to guard kids.
Ilene Chaiken, who created “The L Phrase” in 2004, mentioned she was delighted the present had lived on and was now talking to a brand new technology.
“They might attempt to erase our tales from school rooms and libraries, however we’re right here. We’re right here right this moment on the White Home, and we can’t be erased,” she mentioned.
Jean-Pierre has beforehand used the White Home podium to help LGBTQ rights, calling on states earlier this month to cease what she described as “legislative bullying.”
Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Enhancing by Heather Timmons and Rosalba O’Brien
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